GET UP

The Grassroots Economics Training for Understanding and Power is a series of DSA Fund popular education workshops arming activists and organizers with the knowledge, tools and skills to explain economics from the perspective of the 99% instead of the 1%. Why is poverty on the rise? Why is a low-wage economy unproductive? Who is behind the deregulation, tax-cuts, privatization and de-unionization of the last thirty years? What might an alternative economic model look like?

The GET UP Project prepares training materials, organizes trainings for activists and potential trainers and mentors its graduates as they work to train new activists. We work with individuals and organizations to achieve these goals.

Workshops are available on the following topics, though we are happy to customize trainings:

Higher education and student debt

Causes and outcomes of the financial crisis

Understanding key elements of neoliberal capitalism

Social market alternatives to neoliberal capitalism

To find a GET UP training near you, check with your closest DSA chapter. To inquire about organizing a training with coalition partners in your community or on your campus, email getup (a) dsausa.org.

DSA was concerned to find out that the company that provides our website and online organizing infrastructure, NationBuilder, had as a client the Trump campaign and other right-wing candidates. Progressives built this kind of infrastructure and tools for digital organizing and we have now lost that organizing edge. We are moving to identify other options for a CMS/CRM. As an under-resourced, member funded organization, this move will take time for us to carry out, but it is an important statement for us to make.